Hellllloooooo Colorado!

It has been 7 days with no internet...7 days of no emails (other than my blackberry), no online shopping, no weather, no online bill pay, no blogging, no blog-stalking everyone else and no possibilty of downloading pictures!

We finally got our cable, phone and internet and it seems as though I have become a lot less productive around the house (don't tell Bobby). Since we moved in we have done nothing but unpack, clean, organize and most importantly...shop for furniture. Since getting the internet back I have looked online and searched for my camera cord so that I can share my pictures with all of you. Oh yeah, still haven't found that camera cord.

I will keep up the search for the camera cord because the posts are just no fun without the pictures! I am going to try to start with pictures from our last days in DC, then our road trip across the country and finally our new house!

Happy almost Turkey Day!!

Bye Bye Bye DC...

I looked at Bobby tonight while eating our last meal (Chinese delivery) in our cute little apartment and said, "this is it...our last night here." I actually cannot believe it. I can honestly say that I am now more ready than EVER! We have been living with an apartment full of boxes for 48 hours, and that is about 48 hours too long.

We will be stopping in Pittsburgh for three days and then we hit the road, full speed ahead. DC was fun for a few years (3.5 for me, 7 for Bobby) but it is time to move on. It is time to start our new life in our new home. A home that we can actually paint, update the bathrooms, have our own walls, a garage and a backyard!

I knew today was a good day when our "landlord" came by to give us back our deposit. He said that he put it into an account where it could gain interest so I was excited to see what we would get back...then tension was mounting when he brought out his checkbook and then it all went downhill. I think he mumbled something about not getting a full 1%...1%?! Let's just say that we didn't even get an extra Andrew Jackson...so sad.

I must get back to packing...yes, packing. I feel that I need a new outfit for each of the days while we sit in the car for 7 hours. I also need several pairs of shoes because I am not sure of the weather in each part of the country. I want to be prepared for the rain, the sun, the wind, and the snow...snow? let's hope not!

Here is our apartment full of boxes...oh my.

One more week...

Tomorrow is November 3rd which is one week from moving day. One week? That can't be right! Bobby and I were just looking at all of the pictures of our new house and we still cannot believe that it is our house... OUR HOUSE!

We have been trying so hard to organize, clean, pack, throw things away all while keeping things in order. It isn't going so well. Each day the apartment gets a little messier and it seems like we acquire more things. I think we are finding things that we forget we ever had! I guess that is what to expect when you live in 650 square feet. I can't wait until the movers pick up our bed and realize how much stuff we crammed under there. I might have to take a picture of the expression on their faces! They may need another truck...oops!

We checked the weather for Colorado today and it was 75 degrees. Where is all the snow that everyone keeps mentioning to me. Here is how a typical conversation goes when someone finds out I am moving to Colorado. I say, "Yep, we are moving to Denver" then they say, "Wow, you better get some snow boots and a shovel." Is everyone trying to scare me? I get cold very easily and telling me that I need snow boots is just mean. Really, really mean.

Here we are over the summer at the WW2 memorial a few days after we found out where we would be spending the next few years of our lives!

Thumbs up for Colorado!!!

Home sweet home.

We cannot WAIT to move into this cute little house! I fell in love with it the first second we walked in the door. If the sellers would have recorded our conversation while we were there they could have bumped up the price based on my comments!

We had a few LONG days of home shopping when we arrived in CO. We arrived at 11am and by 11:45am our real estate agent picked us up and off we went. Day one consisted of 18 houses...yes, 18 houses. Let's not forget that we were awake at 3:30am and flew across the country and had a 2 hour time change. Day one was a bit rough!

Day two was a little easier. We only had about 10 house to look at and we had a better idea of what we were looking for. Unfortunately, we didn't find it.

Day three was THE day...the day that we found our FIRST house! We bumped up our budget just a bit and it changed everything! We walked into the house and it was love at first sight for me...not so much for Bobby. He had his heart set on another house that was bank owned and I just did not want to go down that road. After much discussion we decided that this WAS the best house for us! At 10pm that night we put in a low offer and waited for what seemed liked days, maybe even weeks...

1pm the next day we got the call...they accepted our offer and that was it. That gorgeous little house was ours!

We will be closing on Tuesday, November 18th so let's hope that all goes well. We will be moving out of DC on Monday, November 10th and driving to Pittsburgh for 2 days and then WEST we go! If you happen to live anywhere along Route 70 you better look out because we are coming your way!!

So it begins...

Much to Bobby's chagrin, here comes the Meg and Bobby blog. Yippee! There is so much going on with everyone and sometimes I forget to write things in an email so I figured, hey, let's start a blog! I KNOW you are all dying to see each and every step of our crazy lives so I figured this would work out best for all of us!

I will try to post as much as possible while on our way to COLORADO! Today marks the two week countdown until we leave Washington, DC. What a sad, yet happy day that will be! This IS where our "romance" began, ya' know?!